Collins, Berg take fest’s top honors
The Los Angeles Film Festival bestowed top honors on writer-director Steve Collins and documentary filmmaker Amy Berg on Wednesday night.
Collins won for his narrative feature “Gretchen,” a coming-of-age drama about a 17-year-old girl with boy problems, while Berg’s “Deliver Us From Evil” delves into the ways the Catholic Church -- and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony -- responded to a pedophile priest in its midst.
Both awards carry a $50,000 cash prize from Target. They were announced at the festival’s Spirit of Independence event honoring Charlize Theron.
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